AuthorTopic: My first PF tek (Read 24158 times)

Hi, thanks for the forum. I'm in the 4th day on my first batch of 5 jars. There is definite mycelium growth in all 5 jars and I'm feeling pretty good about that. I'll probably start another 5 jars tonight - inoculation tomorrow and then wait and see how it goes. Thanks so much for the easy to follow instructions!

I took this picture last night, 4 days after inoculating. This is one of the better jars though they all had definite growth in them. I just found out that I'll be leaving town 1 week from today for a period of 1 week. Any suggestions for my work in progress?

Looks good for 4 days, keep it nice and warm and they will be doing ok.I don?t think they will be overly colonized in 14 days, so you can leave the in the incubator while you are not there.If you should notice in 1 week that they are nearly colonized, then take them out and let them finish outside somewhere where they get some light.

Ok, after 8 days I have Mr/Mrs Slowpoke on the left, and the star athlete on the right. Anno, I have a coupla 's, should I be concerned about the obvious moisture in the star athlete? And, I've been reading up on casing and it looks pretty straightforward. I'd like to try casing for 2 or 3 of my cakes, but this is my first time ya know. Any advice there? Thanks!

I was gone a bit longer than expected, but it was not a problem. The pictures are of 2 jars out in the light at room temp to pin, 3 jars broken up and ready to be cased, the coco coir and vermiculite casing mixture cooloing from the nuke job, and one of the second set of 5 jars at day 19 which will likely get the same treatment as the first set - 2 as cakes and 3 cased. Thanks again for the tek, and the help along the way. I'll add more progress reports as things develop. Bufale

The cakes are out in indirect light and a lower temp and are showing some signs of pinning. In the meantime, the casing has gone well and looks ready to go to fruiting, in my case a large plastic bin with a layer of wet perlite and a lid. Here's a pic of one of the cased containers with mycelia showing through in spots. I've read some pros and cons about cold shocking. Anno, do you have any thoughts on that procedure?

Finally!... I got some serious pins and about 1/2 inch of growth after over a week. The cakes have very tiny pins - no brown tops yet. I thought I might have done something wrong, but just needed to be patient.

Anno, another vacation question. I'll be leaving again Saturday for about 10 days. I'm planning to harvest whatever I can before I leave Saturday, but then what would you suggest for the remaining immature shrooms and for future flushes? I'm kinda thinking leave 'em in a cool dark place until I return, and then give 'em some light and mid 70's again.